> But I remember gz encoding works fine with IE 5. Shouldn't be a problem with
> 5.5.
Did you try downloading the same compressed page twice, and checking
the server logs, to see if it loaded from cache the second time
around?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Prathap
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Prathaban Mookiah <prathap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirsten <neretlis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:31:04 -0700
> Subject: Re: Reducing size of htm output
>
> > Prathaban Mookiah wrote:
> > > Is it true that ob_start("ob_gzhandler") can cause problems on IE 5.5+?
> > > ====
> > > Since IE <any-version> is on the client side, it shouldn't cause any
> problems
> > > to ob_start(), in that case any other PHP function.
> >
> > That's not true. ob_gzhandler is extremely browser-dependant since
> > it needs to check to see if the browser sent an appropriate accept-encoding
> > header. Some of the early IE versions sent accept-encoding: gzip but
> > didn't correctly implement it, so you can run into problems if you
> > use ob_gzhandler with certain older browsers. It is fine for all
> > the recent releases though.
> >
> > -Rasmus
> >
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